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subsistence agriculture
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farming which meets the basic needs of the farmer and family
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- economy
- Part of
- traditional economy
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- ISCO-88 occupation class
- 6310
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- WikiProject Climate change
- practiced by
- farmer
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Encyclopedic overview
A Bakweri farmer working on his taro field on the slopes of Mount Cameroon, 2005
Subsistence farmers selling their produce, 2017
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “subsistence agriculture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.